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J. David Blackstone has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering and nine years of experience at a wireless telecommunications company, where he learned Perl and never looked back. J. David has an advantage in that he works really hard, he has a passion for writing good software, and he knows many of the world's best Perl programmers.

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Tuesday October 18, 2005

04:48 PM

Templating system du jour

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I have never implemented a templating system in Perl.

Yes, I know I've just exposed myself as a novice Perl programmer. :) Let me hasten to clarify that I've never implemented an HTML templating system. I have in fact done a couple of templating-system-like things for code generation and similar tasks, so I suppose I'm not that green.

What I wanted to know is, it's been a while since I read an article on the subject or heard anyone even mention them, so I wanted to know: did any movement ever occur toward a preferred templating system? What's everybody using? If I were going to start an entirely new project tomorrow for a web application, what templating system would you recommend and why?

Clarification: What I am asking is: I have never learned a templating system. Which one should I learn?

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Template Toolkit (Score:2)

by pudge (1)

I've used it for years, and it is quite popular and well-supported. Slash uses it.
My Picks (Score:2)

by grantm (164)

Like pudge, I tend to use Template Toolkit when I get to choose.

I use HTML::Mason a lot at $work. It's great for when the templates are going to be maintained by Perl programmers. If HTML authors or graphic designers are going to be editing your templates then I wouldn't recommend Mason.
The other one that's really worth looking into is Petal [cpan.org]. You can view the templates directly in your browser and they play nicely with GUI HTML editors.
- Re:My Picks (Score:2)
  
  by jdavidb (1361)
  
  Thank you for the tip about Mason, since I was leaning in that direction but am thinking about a project that would need to be usable by non-technical users.
  
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  J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
  - Re:My Picks (Score:1)
    
    by sigzero (5768)
    
    I picked up TT2 very quickly and I am sure I have only scratched the surface of what it can do.
    
    I highly recommend it.
  - Re:My Picks (Score:2)
    
    by grantm (164)
    
    One more tip with regard to Template Toolkit is that you can configure it to use ASP-style tags. This will then make the templates more compatible with the windows-based GUI HTML editors.
Re: (Score:1)

by Aristotle (5147)

Template Toolkit [tt2.org]. Nothing comes close.

That, or Text::Template [cpan.org].